Iran: further

20 October was in Tabriz the second hearing in the trial against Bulgarian truckdriver Zhivko Roussev,, who is accused of the smuggle of 135kg heroin. He can receive the deathsentence for this.
Januar 2009 he was reported to have been in an Iranian jail four months after he had disappeared without a trace.
His employer initially did not disclose any information, but after some time they had reported him missing.
The driver was arrested after police found a hidden compartment in his lorry.
source: sofiaecho.com



Fariba Pajooh had her vists from familymembers cancelled and her detention order is renewed.
Her lawyer has been notified that her client’s detention order has been renewed.
The news has led to worries that Fariba Pajooh may be transferred back to solitary confinement.
source: hra-iran.net


The workers of Ahvaz Looleh-Chodani in Ahwaz protested for the third time in a week about their unpaid wages of the last 10 months.
In a interview with a state-owned newsagency the MP for Khuzestan has blamed the protesters for the plant closure. He has warned the workers of the consequences of their actions.
source: hra-iran.net



GlobalVoicesOnline reports that Hadi Heydari a wellknown Iranian cartoonist is arrested October 23.



Badi Hossein-Panahi from Gharveh, a relative of Anvar Hossein-Panahi, a Kurd, who is sentenced to death is arrested October 23rd by agents of the Ministry of Information. .
Afshin Hossein-Panahi a brother of Anvar is arrested too.
Their whereabouts are unknown.
source: hra-iran.net



Reuters reports that in the city of Orumiyeh 12 people were arrested on suspicion of promoting satanism.
The newspaper Resalat writes that they engaged in the promotion of satanism through underground music and the production of blasphemous video clips.
source: reuters.com




The newspaper Sarmayeh reported that 35 relatives of detained reformists during a prayergathering for their familymembers are arrested.
Initially 60 people were arrested, among them the wives and children of jailed reformists from the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) party.
The prayer ceremony was being held at the residence of reformist Shahab Tabatabai's father-in-law.
source: AFP



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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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